Tag: Sebastian Stan
Thunderbolts Gets a New Screenwriter
Marvel’s newest superteam is getting a new script. Variety exclusively reports that Lee Sung Jin has been brought in to rewrite the Thunderbolts screenplay. As with pretty much everyone Marvel hires for creative work, you’ve probably never heard of Lee Sung Jin; he’s written episodes of variou...
Read MoreREVIEW: What If…? – Season 1, Episode 1 “What If… Captain Carter Were the First Avenger?”
After giving us a month to regain our sanity and gastrointestinal fortitude following the merciful end of Loki, Marvel has released its first animated series set in the MCU, What If…? Based on the comic series, What If…? takes us on a tour of the multiverse with Uatu the Watcher as our guide, sh...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier – Episode 6 “One World, One People”
“One World, One People” is, if nothing else, the blissful end to this tedious chore of a series. It’s as obnoxiously preachy as you’d expect after last week, but it’s worse because it revels in its effectively admitted ignorance. Parts of it are good, though, and those parts frustrate beca...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier – Episode 5 “Truth”
The condescendingly titled “Truth” (which, since no big answers to anything are revealed, can only mean “We’re about to lay some truth on you”) is the episode where The Falcon and the Winter Soldier goes all-in on identity politics and makes Captain America all about race. People who want ...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Falcon and the Winter Soldier – Episode 4 “The Whole World is Watching”
With “The Whole World is Watching,” The Falcon and the Winter Soldier continues to continue. That’s all it feels like at this point; it’s going through its paces to get to the end. There are bland characters (some of whom used to be fun and cool), weak humor, dull conversations written by pe...
Read MoreREVIEW: The Falcon and the Winter Solider – Episode 3 “Power Broker”
The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is now officially halfway done, and the third episode, “Power Broker,” makes one thing abundantly clear: the people behind this show don’t care. It’s lazy, poorly plotted, flies in the face of MCU history, does potentially cool things for no purpose (which s...
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